FRASER, Hugh younger, 3rd of Lovat, Sheriff of Inverness 1 3
- Born: About 1377 3
- Marriage (1): FENTON, Janet 3 March 1415 (1416) (marriage contract/indenture) 1
- Marriage (2): WEMYSS, Isabella by 1429 1 2
- Died: Before 20 July 1440 1
User ID: Z338.
Research Notes:
NEW ORDER OF LAIRDS OF LOVAT
"The modern Clan Fraser of Lovat records the Lairds of Lovat as follows:[8 'Clan Fraser in Scottish History' (PDF). clanfraser.org.]
Sir Simon Fraser (son of Andrew Fraser and was killed at the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333)
Alexander Fraser (died 1361)
Hugh Fraser, 1st Laird Lovat (died before 1410)
Hugh Fraser, Laird of Lovat (died 1440)
Thomas Fraser, Laird of Lovat (died by 1455)"
from Wikipedia 4
Hugh married Janet FENTON 3 March 1415 (1416) (marriage contract/indenture).1 (Janet FENTON was born about 1388 and died before 1429 1.)
Marriage Notes:
"He (Hugh Fraser) married, first, about the year 1415, Janet Fentoun, a sister of William Fentoun of that Ilk. Their marriage contract is dated at Baky 3 March 1415-16, and is in the form of an indenture."
from Scots Peerage (vol 5)
"Hugh Fraser
Laird of Lovat, MacShimi
born 1377, one of the hostages for James I's ransom when he returned from England in 1424, received the Barony of Abertaff 1422, Sheriff of Inverness 1429-31, married Janet dau of Wm Fentoun of Beaufort, died 1440."
from Clan Fraser in Scottish History 1 3
Hugh next married Isabella WEMYSS, daughter of Sir John WEMYSS of Leuchars, Kincaldrum and Rires, then of Wemyss and Isabel ERSKINE, by 1429.1 2 (Isabella WEMYSS was born about 1390.)
Marriage Notes:
"Janet Fentoun died before 1429, by which date Hugh had married Isabella, daughter of Sir John Wemyss of that Ilk. On the 10th December he grants an acquittance to his 'derreste and beste beluffit bruthir in lauch, Davy of the Wemys, Lord of that like,' of 35 merks by way of marriage."
from Scots Peerage (vol 5)
"The daughters of Sir John Wemyss were -
I. Elizabeth, who married (contract dated 31st August 1418) Andrew Gray, younger of Foulls, afterwards first Lord Gray, and had issue.
II. Isabella, who married, as his second wife, Hugh Fraser of Lovat. Lovat granted to David Wemyss in 1429, as his brother-in-law, a receipt for thirty-five merks of tocher."
from Memorials of the Family of Wemyss 1 2
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